Peter Tolkin and Sarah Lorenzen were recently interviewed by Paul Petrunia and Nicholas Karody of Archinect on their decision to join forces. “The two discuss their new venture together, their “Dunnage Balls” project for the Arroyo Seco festival, and how temporary works can offer architects a venue to explore and experiment singular ideas without the larger constraints that come with built works.” Listen to ‘Next Up: Arroyo Seco Weekend’ Mini-Sessions with Peter and Sarah.

Peter Tolkin Architecture together with the artist Yunhee Min have been selected as one of four finalists competing to create a public gateway at the Glenarm Power Plant for the city of Pasadena. Over the past 20 years Peter Tolkin Architecture has worked at the intersection of Architecture and Art producing public spaces and arts projects both independently and in collaboration with established artists. For more details see below. http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/city-to-name-four-finalists-for-glenarm-power-plant-public-art-project/#.WS212dy1uUm

Peter Tolkin and Sarah Lorenzen were interviewed by Julia Ingalls of Archinect in October 2016. The piece Does Teaching Architecture Enhance Architectural Practice? has Peter and Sarah offering their insights into the boundaries that exist between academia and practice. “Interim” student exhibition at Cal Poly Pomona. Image: Cal Poly Pomona

Peter Tolkin and Mabel Wilson will be giving a talk on their project Listening There, Scenes from Ghana as part of the program for the Graham Foundation exhibition Architecture of Independence: African Modernism. In this talk, Wilson and Tolkin will discuss how Ghana’s mid-century modernist buildings have fared in the half-century since their construction and how they function in today’s increasingly urban and global contexts. For more details see below. http://www.grahamfoundation.org/public_events/5416-listening-there-scenes-from-ghana When: March 8, 2016, 6pm Where: Madlener House …

Peter Tolkin Architecture is pleased to announce that UC Riverside has been awarded an NEA grant for the installation of “Red Carpet in C”, a collaboration between artist Yunhee Min and architect Peter Tolkin. Currently being developed with Peter Tolkin Architecture, the project is conceived as performative architecture–as both an object to be viewed and a space to be inhabited–a virtual translation of music into three dimensions. The suspended fabric form undulates through the volume of the two-story atrium at UCR’s Culver Center …